quotes about Improvisation
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There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
-- Allan Dwan -
If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.
-- Anneliese van der PolSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Anneliese Van Der Pol Explains Why Vampires Suck!". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 4, 2010.
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The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!
-- Barry Harris -
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
-- Carl Reiner -
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
-- Cecil Taylor -
I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
-- Christoph WaltzSource : "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.
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My whole life has been one big improvisation.
-- Clint EastwoodSource : Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
-- Demetri Martin -
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It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
-- Don King -
I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.
-- Eugene Levy -
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
-- Franz Liszt -
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If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.
-- Henry Threadgill -
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
-- Jan Garbarek -
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The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
-- Jane JacobsSource : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.50, Vintage
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My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.
-- John Zorn -
A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.
-- Michael Haneke -
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Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
-- Michael Ignatieff -
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There's always some room for improvisation.
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
-- Steve Lacy -
Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
-- David Pye -
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Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a record based on that time and those improvisations. But as soon as I started playing music down there, I realised that it was going to be something significant for me.
-- Jherek BischoffSource : Source: thequietus.com
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I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.
-- Will Kimbrough -
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
-- Yoshi Wada -
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.
-- Yoshi Wada -
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[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
-- Allan DwanSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.